Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler by L. Jon WertheimMy rating: 0 of 5 stars
Kudos to narrator Butch Engle who does a great job with accents here such as Danny Basavich' New Jersey one. This American professional pool player called "Kid Delicious"was a notorious road player who hustled pool games across the country, but later decided to compete professionally in tournaments after becoming too well known to continue hustling, according to this biography. In there is part of the new media story national hustling itself. The rise of the Internet and forums and whatnot meant no longer the Kid could move around sub rosa> & unrecognized. Also, professional pool as a society failed to transition to cable, unlike poker, or build a sponsored tournament season that could support players of his caliber. Simultaneously the decline of a sport and a hustler, this is a fascinating story about an apparently extinct underground way of life.
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